IYM | iShares U.S. Basic Materials ETFAMEX golden cross and death cross projections
IYM is projected to death cross on the daily within 10 bars. On the daily chart the 50 SMA has sat above the 200 since Jul 2025, but price is now trading below both, and the two averages have been closing on each other.
On the daily, IYM has crossed 14 times, roughly every 7 months, the last one on 7/21/2025. On the weekly it has crossed just once, a golden cross in Jan 2021, with price trading below the 50/200 cross point that day. It closed the following week 7% lower.
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IYM cross history: every 50/200 cross since 2018
28 golden and death crosses since 2018, with one on the weekly timeframe. We projected all 14 daily crosses from a median of 21 bars out. The most recent was a death cross on the 4-hour, on 10/9/2026.
| Crossed | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 10/9/2026 | Death | 4-hour | 5 bar cross test |
| 8/20/2026 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 7/20/2026 | Death | 4-hour | 1 bar cross test |
| 12/15/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | Not tested |
| 11/12/2025 | Death | 4-hour | 3 bar cross test |
| 7/21/2025 | Golden steep | daily | Not tested |
| 6/9/2025 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 12/27/2024 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 12/13/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 9/19/2024 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 7/2/2024 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/3/2024 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 12/13/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 10/5/2023 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 9/28/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 7/12/2023 | Golden | 4-hour | — |
| 3/31/2023 | Death | 4-hour | — |
| 1/12/2023 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 6/29/2022 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 1/11/2021 | Golden moderate | weekly | Not tested |
| 7/16/2020 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 3/10/2020 | Death | daily | Not tested |
| 11/8/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 10/7/2019 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
| 7/2/2019 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 8/3/2018 | Death | daily | 6 bar cross test |
| 6/8/2018 | Golden | daily | Not tested |
| 5/22/2018 | Death | daily | 2 bar cross test |
No crosses on record for that combination.
Click any cross on the chart above for its lead time. Crosses from 2 September 2026 onward were watched live; earlier ones are replayed from the archive with no look-ahead, which is the same method behind the published track record.
Angle: how steeply the 50 was moving, against the stock's own volatility, on the bar it crossed. Steep crosses are the ones that hold; flat ones are the ones that come straight back. The word is the cross's, not the projection's: it is read on the cross bar.